Interview with Aleksey

There is an Interview to Alexey Shchepin from February 2005 that provides some information about Tkabber early days. Here are some excerpts:

[quote=Alexey Shchepin]I started Tkabber because I didn't find Linux client with two features: Unicode and conference support. Gabber had bad Unicode support, and Psi had no conference support. And I didn't want to improve them, because I dislike C++. So I started my own client in a more suitable language from my point of view.[/quote]

What public do you target with Tkabber?

Primarily myself.

How much time did you work in Tkabber before releasing the first version on JabberStudio or CVS?

Around one month.

What development environment do you use to code Tkabber? And for debugging?

Only XEmacs. For debugging I usually use printf/puts/io:format/etc. :)

What client did you use until Tkabber was mature enought?

Gabber. On Windows machines I used Exodus. As you can see, these clients made biggest influence on developing of Tkabber interface.

Did you know Sergei Golovan (big contributor) or Anastasia Gornostaeva (jabber.ru hosting and administration) before starting the project?

I knew Anastasia from talks@conference.jabber.ru chatroom, but I don't remember if Sergei was in this room before I started Tkabber. But I remember that he started to contribute to Tkabber about one month after I started to develop it :)